Sentence examples for word originated from inspiring English sources

Tells how the word originated, listed in Weseen's Dictionary of American Slang, published in 1934.

story about what a "stick" of bombs is and how the word originated.

A better guess is that the word originated as a diminutive of jim-jams, a term for "little doodads" that goes back to the 16th century.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines hoodlum as a "youthful street rowdy," and says the word originated in San Francisco in the early 1870s.

Author likes to think, however, that the word originated earlier, with the 1419 Defenestration of Prague, when Zizka tossed the Burgomaster & six officials from a window of the Town Hall.

The word originated in the context of large-scale violence by the state: the Jacobin Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, when 16,000 to 40,000 people were killed in 13 months.

From what country or other language did the word originate?

The word originates in a street dialect called bargoens, with roots in 19th-century urban life.

This plant is Valeriana officinalis, the latter word originating from "officina", which describes the storerooms of medieval monasteries where medicines were kept.

So it may be a surprise that the word originates far away, in India.

The word originates from around 1375 to 1376, coming from the Middle English term kype, meaning basket or cask, and was a term applied to the shell keep at Guînes, said to resemble a barrel.